Subject: Marriage (Page 28)

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

My husband said he needed more space… so I locked him outside.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

(1913 – 1989) American radio, television, film & voice actor

This coat I’m wearing is a present from my wife; I came home early one night and there it was, hanging over a chair.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

The father of the bride should realize he isn’t losing a daughter but gaining a bathroom.

Bigamist: A man who who has had one too many.

He’s the most married man I ever saw in my life.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

Well I don’t see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy.


She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

I’ve been married to one Marxist and one fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

(1927 – ) American actress

My boyfriend and I broke up; he wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship – marked by occasional and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.

(1949 – ) English novelist

A woman I know is engaged to a real golf nut.  They are supposed to get married next Saturday…but only if it rains.

My mother married a very good man… and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

I was gonna do that mail order bride thing, but you don't know, because if you ain't home and your neighbor signs for her, she's out there mowing his lawn.

stand-up comedian

I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?'… 'Oh, honey – that's up to Mommy, isn't it?'

(1964 – ) American comedian & actor

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

You know what I did before I married? … anything I wanted to.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian